Comment & Opinion

The most important number in the United States is $193.6 trillion. That’s how much extra money will be needed to fund Social Security and Medicare ind...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is correct to join 23 other states in challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that instructs the U.S. Postal Service to...

I knew from an early age that someday I would be a teacher. Throughout my childhood, teachers were always there for me, giving me the safe spaces I ne...

Four astronauts are on a journey around the moon, a mission that offers a rare chance to see our world from a distance, and ourselves more clearly. On...

President Donald Trump’s foes had a field day over the weekend when Iran downed two American planes, an F-15E Strike Eagle and an A-10 Warthog. But ma...

What does Johnstown have to do with San Francisco? Or Warminster with New York, New York? Not much, unless you understand what the left understands — ...

Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives, “Many people — they’re j...

KANSAS CITY (TNS) — I’ve been pondering a new study that is out this week from Penn’s Wharton Business School. It takes a look at federal spending by ...

President Donald Trump last week offered the nation a defense of America’s offensive against Iran, assuring the country the mission will end “very sho...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro keeps repeating the claim that Pennsylvania is the only growing state in the Northeast. But that’s not true. Residents ...

Pennsylvania has long been a driving force behind America’s energy supply. From the oil fields in Titusville and Bradford and the coal seams of Wester...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When someone says a retiree is “living off Social Security,” it’s not usually $100,000 a year. But some U.S. retired couples will be ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, wants to be president of the United States. He might be better off first attempting to address the many fest...

Taxpayer-funded legal expenses incurred by Harrisburg legislators, uncovered and described by PennLive this week, raise numerous questions about trans...

Recently, a federal court struck down the president’s executive order that sought to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS, ruling that it violated the Fi...

Regina Speaker and Sandra Edling, directors of the county office managing schools in Montgomery County took the trip of a lifetime: a 14-day African s...

As politicos across America hunker down and attempt to analyze polls to predict November’s midterms, no numbers prove more grounded than actual electi...

Every day, we move through life expecting immediacy like fast answers, quick deliveries and instant updates. For more than 100,000 people across the U...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — A statistic in a retirement magazine startled me a little. AARP the Magazine noted that 65.3 million U.S. adults are considered “phy...

The SAVE Act would require identification documents to register to vote, but the ID you use for cashing checks and buying alcohol (your driver's licen...